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Bio

Senior WordPress Developer and Proven Team Leader with 20 years of experience. An engineer at heart with active imagination, and military structure, using leadership skills to creatively solve problems, develop solutions, market and promote growth in business, as a well rounded non-aggressive, yet competitive, mix of left and right brain. Top 10 Best Detroit Web developers, and top 6 best Detroit WordPress Designers.

Interests

WordPress, WordPress Hosting, charity facial hair competitions, gardening, Harley Davidson motorcycles, custom choppers, tattoos, modeling, acting, world beard and mustache championships

WordPress Origin Story

April 2010, Steve Jobs announces no more Flash on Apple devices. As a premier Flash Developer, I had to quickly retool. I quickly learned that I not only liked making cool looking stuff, but making the cool looking stuff do cool stuff. I quickly retooled my skillset, and turned my hobby into a career!

Current Job

Website Engineer / Owner
Jul 1999 – Present
MindChip Industries
Design, concept, layout, maintenance and SEO of websites using Figma, WordPress, ACF, CSS3, Bootstrap, Foundation, Bricks Builder, Git, Gulp, SCSS/LESS, Google Analytics and Tag Manager and Search Console.
Manage / provide WordPress dedicated hosting for 50+ sites.
Custom WordPress application development
Custom WordPress themes
Custom WordPress plugin development

Job History

Team Leader Production Front End Development
Oct 2022 – Mar 2025
Cars.com
Coach / mentor and code review with junior developers.
Develop custom client and dealership WordPress websites utilizing ACF, Javascript, JQuery, Bootstrap, HTML, PHP, Figma, .
Integrate Gravity forms with Salesforce, and other CRMs.
Maintain 600+ websites, from dealership websites, including The Sky Deck, large law firms, Pizza franchises, sandwich shops, and local news websites.
Provide feedback on page and block designs built by designers in Figma.
Design and build custom blocks to meet design specifications.
Create training materials and train clients on how to use / edit their site.
Monitor and maintain Google Pagespeed scores. Average scores of 80-99 (desktop) and 65-90 (mobile).
Migrate dealership sites from classic to proprietary site builder technology.
Member of the Kubernetes transition team to speed up delivery of new websites while also vastly lowering site load times.
Bug fixes, client requests, assign, schedule and plan work for the team. Track site performance, uptime
Lead Full Stack WordPress Developer
Apr 2019 – Oct 2022
WorkWave
Combine 4 different WordPress custom themes into 1 for rapid and fluid building of 250+ client websites for simple code maintenance.
Use Agile Methodologies from project kickoff to launch.
Create architecture and workflow for writers and editors to manage blog writing and create a repository of sortable posts to be reused in the future
Custom notifications and permissions for team member workflow via email and Slack notification integration.
Maintain Google Pagespeed scores to average 80-99.
Migrate sites, convert sites from Joomla to WordPress.
Manage/ maintain and update client sites (250+) and error checking.
Develop automated users / managing permissions, post type creation and posts, optimized script handling for fast loading, branded login screen and admin area, menu location and creation, reordering of admin menu for better user experience, saving more than 7 hours of dev time per site.
Developed Custom Plugin for LawnBot Detection.
Track site performance, uptime, SSLs and DNS
WordPress Application Engineer
Dec 2016 – May 2018
Galaxe Solutions
Elite Agile WordPress team member providing solutions Internally with WordPress applications not only informational, but integrated with UltiPro and SSO.
Bootstrap and Foundation 6, LESS / SCSS partials.
Custom taxonomies, custom workflows, custom post types, custom WordPress Themes, custom WordPress plugins.
Agile tools: SourceTree, Git, PHPStorm and MAMP, Git, TFS and BitBucket
Senior Website Developer / Graphic Designer
Dec 2012 – Dec 2016
Compuware Corporation
WordPress website UX/UI for all supported languages and sites (es, de, cn, it, kr, br, la, fr, us, jp).
Development of highly interactive Business Unit Landing pages for international marketing.
Re-design Custom Post types templates regularly along with homepage interactions quarterly
Website usability enhancements utilizing Agile Methodologies.
SEO strategy, performance, enhancing and reporting for corporate and business unit websites.
Design, development and deployment of custom Compuware Bootstrap WordPress theme.
Email and Marketing Automation, templates and landing pages
Filming video or creating collage of videos for use on compuware.com homepage
Graphic Design and photography for social media.
Website Designer / Graphic Designer
Oct 2009 – Dec 2012
Unified Business Technologies
Design of all promotional / marketing material, design, deployment, maintenance, and SEO of websites.
Technical Illustration and photography used in Technical Manuals for military vehicles.

Key Accomplishments

Custom Block Development
Custom WooCommerce top Customers Plugin
Custom Foundation theme creation
Custom Bootstrap theme creation

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October 2023
Oct 18 Wed · 22:13
Forums med
Created a topic, Needed support for stripe webhook validation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
we were getting an error when trying to add the stripe…